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<p>In many parts of our country and, for that matter, the rest of the world, video on demand is increasingly available. *You can demand standard video as well as HD video.</p>
<p>I use Amazon’s service because it’s by far the easiest to use. *I scroll through whatever I want, select it and within a few seconds it starts to play. *Netflix and Apple have similar services. *I can only imagine how many millions of people do the same thing nightly. *That’s a lot of streaming. *The bandwidth to stream a video is huge compared to that of a high resolution file.</p>
<p>I wonder if this model may become the standard we move to in the future for music? *With Sony and other big labels jumping back on the high resolution bandwidth, might it be viable for *a “NetMusic” service to crop up? *A service streaming on demand music from all the labels at either standard CD or “HD” resolution? *And might that service allow me, the user, to have 24 hour access to that music, just like the movies?</p>
<p>The plans one could envision are endless. *For $19.95 a month you can stream as much of anything you like, any time you like. *Or maybe on demand individual downloads. *When I add up the number of CD’s and downloads I purchase each month, examine how many albums/tracks I actually listen to, it’s maybe 20 albums a month; tops.</p>
<p>When I look at my CD library, when I look at my storage on the hard drive I have thousands and thousands of tracks. *I don’t listen to thousands and thousands. *But I have them. *I would love to have more. *Fact is, 99% of my library will never be played by me. *Like going to a book library, 99% of those books won’t be read by me, but it’s nice they are there just in case.</p>
<p>Think of the size your library could be with such a service. *No, not the Spotify or MOG of today. *I mean music available in full CD or HD quality resolutions: DSD and PCM with a million or more albums in the library. *Bandwidth is easily 1/10th that of a standard resolution video and there are easily 10 times more people who might be interested in this service. *But maybe not. *Maybe Spotify and MOG’s compressed music formats are good enough for most?</p>
<p>Not for me, not for what Sony wants to do. *Could be interesting.</p>
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<p>I use Amazon’s service because it’s by far the easiest to use. *I scroll through whatever I want, select it and within a few seconds it starts to play. *Netflix and Apple have similar services. *I can only imagine how many millions of people do the same thing nightly. *That’s a lot of streaming. *The bandwidth to stream a video is huge compared to that of a high resolution file.</p>
<p>I wonder if this model may become the standard we move to in the future for music? *With Sony and other big labels jumping back on the high resolution bandwidth, might it be viable for *a “NetMusic” service to crop up? *A service streaming on demand music from all the labels at either standard CD or “HD” resolution? *And might that service allow me, the user, to have 24 hour access to that music, just like the movies?</p>
<p>The plans one could envision are endless. *For $19.95 a month you can stream as much of anything you like, any time you like. *Or maybe on demand individual downloads. *When I add up the number of CD’s and downloads I purchase each month, examine how many albums/tracks I actually listen to, it’s maybe 20 albums a month; tops.</p>
<p>When I look at my CD library, when I look at my storage on the hard drive I have thousands and thousands of tracks. *I don’t listen to thousands and thousands. *But I have them. *I would love to have more. *Fact is, 99% of my library will never be played by me. *Like going to a book library, 99% of those books won’t be read by me, but it’s nice they are there just in case.</p>
<p>Think of the size your library could be with such a service. *No, not the Spotify or MOG of today. *I mean music available in full CD or HD quality resolutions: DSD and PCM with a million or more albums in the library. *Bandwidth is easily 1/10th that of a standard resolution video and there are easily 10 times more people who might be interested in this service. *But maybe not. *Maybe Spotify and MOG’s compressed music formats are good enough for most?</p>
<p>Not for me, not for what Sony wants to do. *Could be interesting.</p>
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[Source: http://www.pstracks.com/pauls-posts/making-music/12621/]
